YS did all of the cooking himself; I only had to do some "prep" for him. He did a great job, and everything tasted wonderful! We attempted empanadas. We had this wonderful idea to deep fry (I'm from the south where we think everything tastes better fried, remember?) them, but they fell apart in the deep fryer. This was completely my fault; I take the blame for it! We did go ahead and put them over vanilla ice cream. The falling apart didn't detract from the taste one bit.

2. Summer clothes...I'll be much cooler now that I switched out my clothes from winter to summer!

3. Flowers in the yard. There aren't very many, but at least there are a few!

4. Finishing "Mercy" by Jodi Picoult. The book was okay, it just took me longer to finish than it usual does.

5. Kindergarten Screenings. Here's a picture of the team that screened Thursday at one of the schools:

They are my best speech chickies. I gave the one in the green jacket a hard time, because that's the shirt she wore last year:

No M&M's this year (diet...remember?). One of the items on the screen is to have the child name 6 foods, then 6 animals. The girliest girl in the world was naming the animals when I got distracted, and I made a comment to one of the ladies. Then, I turned back to her and told her to tell me a few more foods, and she said, "foods?" I corrected myself, and then she said, "You get a little confused sometimes." Oh, honey, if you only knew! Then, I had a little boy who was suppose to repeat sentences after me. I said, "Where is my new marker?" to which he replied, "I not have it." So, I explained that he was to say exactly what I say, and I repeated the sentence. He again replied (with just a hint of agitation): "I not have it." Okay then...mark that as a miss and move on!

I made empanadas this week also... filled some with leftover pot roast and added some cheese... and then made some with homemade apple pie filling... I would have loved to fry them but I have frying food in my house so I baked them... they don't taste as good as fried but they were still good!